Wire gate



J.-P.HANNA.

WIRE GATE.

(No Model.)

Patented Apr. 26, 1887.

UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN F. HANNA, OF NEAR MOMENGE, ILLINOIS.

WIRE GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 361,942, dated April 26, 1887.

Application filed October 30, 1886. Serial No. 217,624. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN F. HANNA, a citizen of the United States, residing near Momence, in the county of Kankakee and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful WVire Gate, of which the following is a-specification.

My invention relates to improvements in wire gates in which two uprights having vertical blocks and two central curved bars united at their ends constitute the wood frame thereof; and the objects of my invention are to provide proper means for adjusting the curve of the central bars or braces either to slacken or to strain the wires thereof accurately, means for substantially fastening the ends of the central brace, and an economical hanger, thus makinga gate possessing superior advantages in point of general efficiency and durability.

This invention is an improvement in a wire gate for which I obtained Letters Patent No. 351,37 5 in the United States October 26, 1886.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a view in perspective of my improved wire gate partly closed and supported by a bent flanged hanger attached to a supporting-post. Fig. 2 shows a screw that is threaded from near the center to both ends, having four threaded nuts. Fig. 3 shows a bent metal hanger having a point at one end and flanges at the other end.

The gate as represented in Fig. 1 shows the uprights A 13 connected by a horizontal wire cable and a strand of barbed wire above the curved central brace, c c, and two horizontal wire strands below said brace, connected by a wire net-work, the ends of which pass through the uprights A B, and are secured thereto by staples. The wires are first strained by driving a wedge, L, between the socket R and upright B, and the tension thereof is adjusted bythe flexible central brace, c c, operated by the fixed threaded screw S and the thumbnuts thereof. The central brace consists of two curved flexible bars, a 0, attached to uprights by metallic sockets, and is regulated by a fixed threaded screw, S, provided with two plain and two threaded thumb-nuts, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The screw S is vertically inserted loosely into the center of bars 0 c, and secured to upper bar, 0, by two threaded nuts. The two thumb-nutsone above and the other below thelower curved bar, c-serve for widening the curve thereof by turning both nuts down, and for the opposite purpose by turning both nuts up, as may be required either to shorten or to lengthen the central brace, in order either to slacken or to strain the wires,

and a wire net-work which connects the horizontal wires, and is spread by wood or metal vertical stays secured thereto by staples, as represented in Fig. 1.

The ends of the central brace, c 0, enter into single sockets in flanged metallic receptacles R B, connected to the upright blocks A B, and are secured by driving wood or metal wedges H H between the bars into the receptacles R R. Then the said bars and wedges are united together at both ends by bolts mm, that also connect a short oblique wood or metal brace-handle, J, above and a short metal brace below the forward socket, both of which are attached to the upright A by screws or bolts.

The flanged metal hanger N (shown in Figs. 1 and 3) forms aloop in which the central bar, 0, slides and turns, having a point at one end to enter and flanges at the other end to set firmly upon the supporting-post T, and be secured thereto by screws, as represented. It is a very economical hanger, easily applied.

The gate can be quickly set up and attached to almost any kind of fence. It is very light and substantial. A curved metal bolt, F, is inserted into upright A, that serves for a secure latch fitting over ametal plate attached by screws to the adjoining post T. The lower side of the central sliding bar, 0, is polished with 3. pl umba-go mixture, which makes a smooth surface that facilitates the sliding action of the bar a.

The gate is easily opened by lifting on the handle J, sliding it back and swinging it around, and it is at liberty to be raised above obstructing snow, &c.

The facility of actuating the central brace by the threaded thumb-nuts and fixed screw is very serviceable to slacken the tension of the wires previous to very cold weather,when

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the wires contract, and to take up the expansion of the wires in warm seasons, for keeping the gate in the most perfect order.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is a The combination, in a gate, of end uprights connected by horizontal wires, a central brace consisting of two curved bars attached to the uprights by metallic sockets, in which their ends are secured by wedges driven between them and united by bolts passing through both the bars and the wedges, with an oblique handle above and abrace below theforward socket, a fixed threaded screw provided with four nuts [5 for regulating the tension of the central brace, a supporting-post, and a metallic hanger consisting of a loop in which the upper central bar slides, having a point at one end and flanges at the other to fix it upon the support- 20 ing-post, all substantially as shown and described.

JOHN F. HANNA. lVit-nesses:

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